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8 Million More Living In Poverty, 9 Million Small Businesses In Danger Of Closing, 10 Million Behind On Rent…
Economic Collapse Blog ^ | 2/9/21 | Michael Snyder

Posted on 02/10/2021 1:34:10 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal

The economic downturn that we are currently experiencing is making the last recession look like a Sunday picnic. Yes, 2008 and 2009 were bad, but they weren’t anything like this. Unprecedented intervention by the Federal Reserve has allowed the rich to get even richer during this crisis, but meanwhile millions upon millions of ordinary Americans are deeply suffering. Unfortunately, what we have gone through so far is just the beginning.

As a child, I was a big fan of Sesame Street, and one of the characters that really stood out to me was Count von Count. I loved the fact that he was always counting things, and that is what I am going to do in this article in order to illustrate how bad economic conditions have now become.

Let’s start with the number 7. According to the Congressional Budget Office, approximately 7 million more Americans would have jobs right now if the COVID pandemic had never happened…

But in fact, what the CBO is projecting is dire: around 7 million people out of work in 2021 whom CBO thought before the pandemic would be working. That’s dire – and a call to immediate action, not calm, not wait-and-see.

(Excerpt) Read more at theeconomiccollapseblog.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Government; Society
KEYWORDS: collapse; economy; housing; unemployment
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Well, what did you expect the “Economic Collapse” blog to publish? “Prosperity is just around the corner”? Someone would get fired.


21 posted on 02/10/2021 3:09:47 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Fauci told us it won’t be “normal” until fall 2021. Few small restaurants can hang on til then.


22 posted on 02/10/2021 3:33:50 PM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: polymuser

Restaurant owners are to blame for being obedient little pussies


23 posted on 02/10/2021 3:37:10 PM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

The net result of all of this economic damage had been to enrich the billionaire class even more. Small business has been destroyed. Now they are back to trying to import a new consumer class that consumes more consistently over a lifetime. Sorry, whitey, but you slow down consumption of product as you get older. You have to be replaced.


24 posted on 02/10/2021 4:09:24 PM PST by cdcdawg (My greatest fear is that our society will get what it deserves.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

And of course the democrat dominated Maryland legislators are busy overriding last years vetoed tax increases.


25 posted on 02/10/2021 4:18:32 PM PST by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: Larry Lucido

The Economic Collapse Blog is less truthful than Zero Hedge, and ought to be banned just as ZH is.


26 posted on 02/10/2021 4:35:03 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (Eleutheromaniac)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Not to worry... Impeachment will fix all of that. NOT!


27 posted on 02/10/2021 4:57:54 PM PST by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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